“With an ‘All-Star’ team focused on exploiting our patent pending IP and ‘Blockchain’ technology, Planet’s Next Gen ATM kiosks, unique network architecture and state-of-the-art wallet solution will make us a major payments industry disrupter.”

Wozniak’s presence among these “all-stars” is conspicuous, and raises questions as to the relationship between the blockchain and matters closer to Apple, such as Apple Pay, in the longer term.

Within the Planet Capital project, however, the momentum behind a major rollout of ‘all-in-one’ money kiosks is palpable, the company’s board also including Atari Co-Founder Steve Mayer, Clinton Administration FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, former CFO of the Carlyle Group, John Harris, and former IBM/Seagate Executive, Ken Hardesty.

In addition to traditional ATM functions, the machines feature the ability for customers to pay bills, vendors to enable point-of-sale transactions, perform mobile top-ups, and for gift cards to be purchased and enabled from participating vendors.